Posts by Chaka Kahn

Quote: Originally Posted by Woland The ata5 and ata6 aren't important. Ata5 supports transfer rates of 100 MBps while Ata6 supports 133 MBps. Neither of the drives will be able to push data that fast, though (in other...

sorry about the links. they were both 5400rpm drives, but what i don't understand is the ata 6 and ata 5 stuff. is there a difference? thanks.

i plan on adding a new hard drive to my thinkpad r50e, and all i know is that it's a 40gb 4200rpm hitachi drive. i am looking at getting...

i <3 my lenovo aka "lenovo" R50e. so i would say ibm -> sony -> ???? <- out of laptops i've only used.

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thank you! yah, i guess i'm going to leave the OS alone and all. i mean, i regained a crap load of hard drive space. before, as is on the other r50e, has 19.xGB of hdd space out of a 40GB (37GB formatted). on mine now, it has 30.7GB...

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well, for the rescue and recovery, i think you had to first back it up via the ultra restore program, but i used another backup that's on there that just says "create ibm recovery disks" and those did nothing. somehow, i think...

well, i had an xp cd from my old hp laptop, so i just installed that. the gay part was all the drivers. luckily, ibm has an entire list of audio, video, network, display, keyboard, etc. drivers on their support page (model specific) so i...

well, all i really want now is xp and the ibm stuff. but ibms don't come with restore cds or anything, you have to make your own. i did that, and it doesn't work!